Past Events

Each year The Pearson Institute hosts a variety of lectures, workshops and seminars. Unless noted otherwise, all events are held on the University of Chicago campus.

04.23.18

Data-Driven Policymaking in International Development Practice: Identifying Binding Constraints to Economic Growth

Brad Cunningham, Economist at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), will discuss MCC’s use of constraints analysis, using the growth diagnostics methodology, to identify binding constraints to economic growth. Brad will discuss his experience working on constraints analysis in numerous countries, including Nepal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kosovo, and Sri Lanka. 

Monday, April 23, 2018

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Harris Public Policy Room 142

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04.16.18

The Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Annual Lecture featuring Jonathan Powell

This annual lecture provides an opportunity to hear directly from leaders in international policy who have worked in peace and conflict. Jonathan Powell is Director and Founder of Inter Mediate, a charity that works on conflict resolution around the world. Mr. Powell was Chief of Staff to Tony Blair from 1995 to 2007 and was Chief British Negotiator on Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007, during which he played a key role in the peace process that led to the Good Friday Agreement. The agreement ended thirty years of sectarian violence known as The Troubles.

Monday, April 16, 2018

12:00 - 1:15 PM

Ida Noyes Hall Cloister Club

The University of Chicago

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04.12.18

Funding Peace from the Inside Out: Tapping Visible and Invisible Resources for Transformation

Join us to hear from Libby Hoffman, Founder and President of Catalyst for Peace, the cofounder and primary funding and program partner for peacebuilding initiative Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone. She will share key lessons, insight and new theory from the work of building fully locally-owned, holistic reconciliation and development processes and growing to a national scale; what working ‘from the inside-out’ opens up for local communities; and what it uniquely requires of external supporters and funders.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

12:00-1:00 PM

Harris Public Policy 

Room 289B

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James Robinson in Ukraine

Institute Director James Robinson presents themes from his internationally bestselling book, Why Nations Fail, at an event in Ukraine.